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Phone interviews have a special way of messing with your concentration. During a physical interview, the interviewer may have a pad of paper that they are taking notes on, but it’s very obvious that they are paying attention to you. During a phone interview, this is much less obvious. You may be talking, or coding in Google Docs and you can hear your interviewer typing on their keyboard, leading you to think that you are boring them or that you are doing poorly. You shouldn’t think this way. It’s very possible that they are just typing notes on how you are doing, so it’s important to stay focused on the task at hand and to continue doing your best.
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      <p>Confidence is key during an interview. You want to convince the interviewer that you are the best candidate for the position. You can accomplish this in multiple ways.

First, it’s important that you actually pick a solution to a problem. If given a problem, it’s fine to talk about multiple ways to approach the problem, but you need to eventually pick the one that you feel is the best and to try not to rely on cues from your interviewer when making the decision. They want to hire somebody that they can trust to make logical choices on their own and not need someone to constantly validate everything that they do.

If at some point during the question you realize that you’ve made a mistake, it’s fine to go back and change whatever you’ve done. Just make sure to explain why you are doing this. The interviewer is looking for confidence, but not bullheadedness.

In one interview that I had, I was given a problem and the interviewer told me that he was just going to stare at me until I was finished, and that I was to decide for myself when I had come up with a satisfactory answer. He wasn’t going to tell me when I had successfully completed the problem or if I was starting to shoot myself in the food. He wanted to see that I could be trusted to reach a decision and be able to stand behind what I had done.</p>
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      <p>A person’s attitude is just as important as their ability to code. You have to remember that the interviewer is looking for people that they might have to work alongside some day, which means they want personable people that are team players.

There is a very fine line between confidence and arrogance. Arrogant people in general are difficult to work with and tend to find it hard to listen to other people’s suggestions. Also, nothing looks worse than someone who is giving incorrect answers but thinks they are 100% right.

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      <p>Most interviewers want to see your thought process and this matters more than whether or not you get the correct answer. Make sure you are always vocalizing what you are thinking. Why you are choosing to use a certain data structure or why you think your algorithm should be set up this way.

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